MARCO WILLIAMS  
(Producer/ Director)

Marco Williams is a filmmaker and a film educator. He is a member of the faculty at New York University in the Undergraduate Film and Television Department. Prior to joining NYU, he taught for three years as a member of the directing faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking. An award-winning documentary and fiction film director, Williams' filmography includes the nationally and internationally acclaimed documentary IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS (1992, Silver Apple at National Educational Film and Video Festival), and the CableAce nominated dramatic short, WITHOUT A PASS (1991). He is also the director of MAKING PEACE: REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES (1995) which was part of a four hour PBS series profiling people working to heal the conditions that create violence in their communities. Williams' films have been broadcast on cable and public television, including Showtime and Frontline, and have been screened at film festivals throughout the world.

WHITNEY DOW  
(Producer/ Director)

Before moving into documentaries, Whitney Dow worked in the industrial and commercial world creating short films and commercials for the fashion, beauty, liquor and media industries. He has directed over 200 commercial projects for such clients as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Details, Revlon, Clinique, Absolut, Johnny Walker, and Moet Chandon. His career changed direction after he was asked to direct two documentary shorts for The American AIDS Rides (1997). Mr. Dow left his job as creative director at Fountainhead Productions to create Feral Films in 1998, and pursue documentary filmmaking full time.

TWO TOWNS OF JASPER is Mr. Dow's first feature-length film.